The Munich Patrician, Sebastian Ligsalz

Friedrich Hagenauer

Augsburg, 1527

Pearwood

12,3 cm

Inv.-Nr. R 466

Transferred from the Vereinigte Sammlungen in 1866

Gallery 21

Hagenauer trained as a wood-carver and worked as a portraitist. His practice was to make wooden models for the medallions he would cast in silver, bronze or lead. From 1527–1532 he was in Augsburg; in the course of these five years he made 85 medallions.